Minecraft 1.21.5 Snapshot 25w05a brings about a host of new additions, including three different cow variants, desert ambient sounds, and fireflies. This snapshot has finally brought it here, but instead, as the Firefly Bush. The Firefly Bush is a new block that will be found in swamps and rivers. Just as Minecraft pig variants recently became a thing, today’s Snapshot also has something in store for cows. Besides the changes above, the latest Snapshot also brings new ambient sounds for Desert and Badlands, Powdered Snow changes, and beacon improvements.

Features:

New Features

  • Added cold and warm variants for the Cow
  • Added Firefly Bush block
  • Added Bush block
  • Added new ambient block sounds for ambient sounds in Desert and Badlands biomes

Cow Variants

  • New Cow variants have been added, the variant is determined by the biome they spawn in
  • Temperate variant – The Cow we are all familiar with
    • Spawns by default where the cold and warm variants do not spawn
  • Cold variant – A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
    • Old Growth Pine Taiga
    • Old Growth Spruce Taiga
    • Taiga
    • Snowy Taiga
    • Windswept Hills
    • Windswept Gravelly Hills
    • Windswept Forest
  • Warm variant – A variant that spawns in the following biomes:
    • Savanna
    • Savanna Plateau
    • Windswept Savanna
    • Jungle
    • Sparse Jungle
    • Bamboo Jungle
    • Eroded Badlands
    • Wooded Badlands
    • Badlands
  • When bred by a player, a baby Cow variant will not be chosen by the current biome, but instead randomly selected from one of the parents’ variants

Firefly Bush

  • The Firefly Bush is found in Swamps and near Rivers
  • When it’s dark, glowing firefly particles appear around the Firefly Bush
  • Using Bone Meal on a Firefly Bush will spawn another Firefly Bush item
  • The Firefly Bush emits light level 2

Bush

  • The Bush is a new type of decorative block that can be found in small patches in the following biomes:
    • Plains
    • Windswept Hills
    • Windswept Gravelly Hills
    • Windswept Forest
    • River
    • Frozen River
    • Forest
    • Birch Forest
    • Old Growth Birch Forest
  • The Bush can be used in the Composter
  • Using Bone Meal on a Bush places a neighbouring Bush next to the Bush if possible

New Ambient Sounds for Desert and Badlands

  • Sand, Red Sand and Terracotta of any color have a chance of playing ambient sounds when surrounded by any one of them on at least 3 sides 8 blocks away
    • block.sand.idle can be played in any biome
    • block.sand.wind only plays when in Desert or Badlands biomes
  • Dead Bush blocks have a chance of playing ambient sounds when placed on top of two blocks that are any color of Terracotta, Sand or Red Sand blocks in any biome

Changes

  • The look of the temperate Cow has been slightly updated to have an extruded snout
  • Beacons and their beams now render beyond 16 chunks up to the client render distance
    • To keep it easily visible at large distances, the beam is rendered thicker the further away you are
    • The beam now renders up to 2048 blocks high, up from 1024

Technical Changes

  • The Data Pack version is now 65
  • The Resource Pack version is now 50

Screenshots:

Requires:

Java

Java Runtime Environment

How to install:

Minecraft 1.21.5 Snapshot 25w05a Download Links

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